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Imagery based BMI system for people with paralysis

Researchers from a multi-institutional team led by the lab of Woon-Hong Yeo at the Georgia Institute of Technology introduce a new wearable brain-machine interface (BMI) system that combines wireless soft scalp electronics and virtual reality. It allows the user to think action and wirelessly controls a wheelchair or robotic arm. The system is of great advantage for people with motor dysfunction or paralysis. “The major advantage of this system to the user, compared to what currently exists, is that it is soft and comfortable to wear, and doesn’t have any…

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Net Neutrality in joe Biden’s era: Everything you need to know

Net neutrality rules are coming back on cards since US president Joe Biden calls for it. Biden encouraged FCC to bring back net neutrality rules while asking to require broadband companies to provide pricing transparency. According to Biden’s new infrastructure plan, he aims at ensuring broadband access to every American and announced a fund of $100 Billion for the purpose. Let’s have a look on to net neutrality & it’s rules Net neutrality is a concept to treat all the data on the internet equally. the net neutrality rules restricting…

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New IRS child tax credit portal is now open: Learn what it does

The latest tools from the IRS will help families find out if they’re eligible for the child tax credit payments and opt out if they’d like. We’ll tell you how to use them. Both IRS child tax credit portals are officially available for use, the agency said Tuesday, as well as a new eligibility tool. One portal — called the Child Tax Credit Update Portal — will let you verify if your family qualifies for the tax credit and unenroll from getting monthly payments this year. A Spanish version will be available soon, the…

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How to Use Tech to Capture Your Family History

Our elders have rich stories to share. There’s no better time than now to sit down and hit Record IN LESS THAN 10 years, one in five Americans will be over 65 years old. As our parents and grandparents age, we grow one day closer to losing the opportunity to learn their life stories. The good news is that with the various recording options available, you don’t have to be an award-winning filmmaker or videographer to preserve your loved one’s history. Throughout our Midwest childhood, my siblings and I wanted…

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Jay-Z Joins Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Board of Directors for Company ‘Square’

A celebrity has just joined the board of directors of one of the up and coming companies started by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. While Jay-Z has been active in the business world and is still a well known rapper, the recent seat still comes as a surprise. Jay-Z Joins Jack Dorsey’s Square According to the story by CNet, Square, a certain mobile-payments company that is reportedly owned by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has just added Jay-Z to the company’s official board of directors. The board of directors are critical to…

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Cognizant Attrition High Time, Impacting Revenue

Even as Cognizant has made offers to 28,000 campus hires for onboarding this year, the company’s attrition rate continues to stay very high, compared to those of its Indian peers. Some of the latter are seeing these rates decline, but Cognizant’s has risen in the past two quarters and has hovered in the range of 18%-24% for the past nine quarters. In the latest quarter, the company’s attrition rose to 21%, translating to about 15,600 employees leaving the firm. It was 19% in the preceding quarter and was 24% in…

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Cryptocurrency Investors Should be Prepared to Lose All Their Money: BoE Governor

LONDON — Cryptocurrencies “have no intrinsic value” and people who invest in them should be prepared to lose all their money, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said. Digital currencies like bitcoin, ether and even dogecoin have been on a tear this year, reminding some investors of the 2017 crypto bubble in which bitcoin blasted toward $20,000, only to sink as low as $3,122 a year later. Asked at a press conference Thursday about the rising value of cryptocurrencies, Bailey said: “They have no intrinsic value. That doesn’t mean to…

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Facebook Plans to Build a ‘Parent-Controlled’ Instagram for Children Under 13

Facebook is building a version of Instagram that will be tailored to children under the age of 13, PEOPLE confirms. “Increasingly kids are asking their parents if they can join apps that help them keep up with their friends,” a Facebook spokesperson tells PEOPLE. “Right now there aren’t many options for parents, so we’re working on building additional products — like we did with Messenger Kids — that are suitable for kids, managed by parents.” Messenger Kids debuted in late 2017 as a privacy-focused app for children, according to Tech…

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Facebook’s Trump Ban Upheld by Oversight Board for Now

Donald Trump’s ban from Facebook and Instagram has been upheld by Facebook’s Oversight Board. But it criticised the indefinite nature of the ban as beyond the scope of Facebook’s normal penalties. It has ordered Facebook to review the decision and “justify a proportionate response” that is applied to everyone, including ordinary users. The former president was banned from both sites in January following the Capitol Hill riots. The Oversight Board said the initial decision to permanently suspend Mr Trump was “indeterminate and standardless”, and that the correct response should be…

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Spotify Premium Duo Expands Worldwide, Costs Rs. 149 in India !!

Spotify is expanding the availability of Spotify Premium Duo — a subscription built for two people, usually couples — to 55 new markets including India, it said Wednesday. Spotify Premium Duo will cost Rs. 149 per month in India, $13 (about Rs. 980) in the US, and £13 (about Rs. 1,220) in the UK. If you haven’t used Spotify Premium in the past, you’ll get a free month of Spotify Premium Duo. And if you have tried Spotify Premium previously, you can easily switch to Duo on Spotify.com under the…

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